Hey, I lurk the boards and usually post in G&T, and after seeing Al Gore's 2005 documentary
An Inconvenient Truth, I decided I wanted to delve more into how much has been fucked/saved since 2009. I tried looking into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but I was so lost even with their FAQ management, so I was wondering if there was a more user friendly site that offers an easier way to do some research?
Btw I know it's still been getting warmer and such, but I'm looking for the cold hard facts.
Much appreciated.
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This link has an article on NOAA's report on climate change, and the report is linked at the bottom. It's more focused on effects than causes, but it might be a good place to start. You can at least look at the footnotes and see where the data is coming from. There's also a link to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, but that is some hard core raw data that probably won't be very useful to you.
www.noaa.gov
Report: http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts
National Climatic Data Center: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts
There is a link to download the full report on that page.
Another good start is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They release yearly reports, and although (to my knowledge) they haven't released 2009's data yet, you can find a lot of data on their site, and news stories about previous year's reports.
If you have access to scholarly databases, the best place to look are peer-reviewed journals. That's where you'll find your "cold hard facts." There's a journal named "Climate Change," but you could look at other atmospheric science journals in addition.
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/